Word: hitlers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hrer Hitler was a "cornered maniac," "this monstrous apparition," "that evil man." The Führer and his Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop, were "those marvelous twin contortionists" and Dr. Paul Joseph Göebbels and his Ministry for Propaganda and Enlightenment were labeled a "leather-lunged propaganda machine" which indulges in "bloodcurdling threats...
...have been agreeably surprised that ten weeks have been allotted to us to get into fighting trim," boasted Mr. Churchill. "We are far better prepared to endure the worst malice of Hitler and his Huns than we were at the beginning of September!" If Germany does not choose now to attack, continued the First Lord, "we shall profit to the full by the time put at our disposal...
...front of the French Army along the Maginot Line. But their docile conscripts are being crowded in vast numbers upon the frontiers of Holland and Belgium. To both these States the Nazis have given most recent and solemn guarantees. No wonder anxiety is great. No one believes one word Hitler and the Nazi Party say and therefore we must regard that situation as grave. . . . If we are conquered, all will be enslaved and the United States will be left single-handed to guard the rights of man. If we are not destroyed, all these countries will be rescued and restored...
...along the line there were last-minute changes. The annual meeting of the Nazi Party Old Guard-those hard, mystic, loyal, lower-middle-class men machine-gunned on the streets of Munich on Nov. 9, 1923, in Adolf Hitler's abortive bid for power-had been scheduled at the traditional hour of 8:30. At 6, the Munich radio announced, without giving a reason, that the meeting had been set ahead half an hour...
...sanctorum of the Nazi Party, perhaps the best guarded room frequented by the best guarded man in the world. The veterans packed the balcony; pressed around the one central pillar supporting the entire ceiling; crowded to the very foot of the speaker's white rostrum. The big men-Hitler, Göebbels, Himmler, Frick, Hess, Ley, Rosenberg, Streicher, Brückner-were there on time (only Göring was absent, holding the fort in Berlin); so were the small fry, like Wilhelm Weber, a radio speaker, Leonhard Reindl, an office clerk, and jolly, buxom Maria Henle, the beer...